Finally @kon, you mentioned about removing country controller in FA and set the country flag to Hongkong sometime ago. Could you please kindly shed some light about how this could be done? After you have performed this what happened? Many thanks.

In order to make the car register the change in FA do I need to VO code some unit or ideally it would just enables language support??

You will definitely have to code HU_CIC (kombi & CMB_media will be optional)... but since you're just "testing to see if the font exist", i guess HU_CIC will be sufficient. If doesn't work and have to revert you have less to undo.

I am still not convinced that the software builds of CIC differ from Asian countries to the EU/US ones. I reckon the price difference should be down to software licensing and/or country specific tax etc. It would be mind-numbingly stupid if BMW actually release 2 branches of CIC builds JUST because of the locale.

I am doubting Aupeo! knows this problem and deliberately tweak the encoding of those characters to make them display correctly on the CIC - so my guess is for our EU/US spec CIC the system uses ANSI or ISO as character encoding rather than utf8. but further tests are needed to verify these theories.

I am getting frustrating about this as it is deemed to be a very very basic functionality and since in the NBT it does support CJK, BMW certainly has realised that the necessity of this.

Finally @kon, you mentioned about removing country controller in FA and set the country flag to Hongkong sometime ago. Could you please kindly shed some light about how this could be done? After you have performed this what happened? Many thanks.

The part prices are ex.taxes (e.g. there's no tax in HK) & priced in euros. It assumes u're ordering the part at a German dealer.
AFAIK the PRC-spec CIC has a higher GPS margin of error (due to laws in China), plus it's not available with DAB+ (even tho it's on-air in PRC & HK).
Don't even think abt adding HK country controller to the VO, it disables album art & office. Wht the guys did was removing HK country controller & then changing one of the ecu's locale to HK. The aim is to re-enable office & album art (removing VO) & re-enabling chi support when idrive is set to eng (changing locale, necessary after removing VO), & it works on HK-spec non-nav F10 & F30 (Asian fonts support already built-in regardless of language setting before coding).
Kon already tried changing locale & it didn't work for him.

I thought, I give VO coding a try even the car is leased. So I added 614, 615 and coded to HU_CIC. I now see some new menus available in iDrive, however BMW Live still says I have inactive browser so I shall contact dealer to activate.

Also, by adding 614 and 615, ONLINE_BROWSER remained nicht_aktive while ONLINE_BROWSER_LIVE is switched to aktiv.

Do you guys think if I enable ONLINE_BROWSER to aktiv, then 614-615 related functions start working?

In belgium, online configurator shows 6WA, 6NH as prerequisite to 614. 6AL (BMW Live) requires only 6NH, so in theory this should work...

The part prices are ex.taxes (e.g. there's no tax in HK) & priced in euros. It assumes u're ordering the part at a German dealer.
AFAIK the PRC-spec CIC has a higher GPS margin of error (due to laws in China), plus it's not available with DAB+ (even tho it's on-air in PRC & HK).
Don't even think abt adding HK country controller to the VO, it disables album art & office. Wht the guys did was removing HK country controller & then changing one of the ecu's locale to HK. The aim is to re-enable office & album art (removing VO) & re-enabling chi support when idrive is set to eng (changing locale, necessary after removing VO), & it works on HK-spec non-nav F10 & F30 (Asian fonts support already built-in regardless of language setting before coding).
Kon already tried changing locale & it didn't work for him.

Thanks @clarence. what a sad news.

I tried everything i could, no avail.

Looks like you are right, the difference for asian and eu/us CICs is in the system level. i was so confident that it could work was because i remember a while ago when i looked at the system architecture paper for QNX and learnt that unicode and international localisation is outofbox in the kernel level so there must be a way of enabling it, it is unfortunately we probably can't do it via changing FDLs.

@shawn, do you still have the info regarding telnet or ssh into the cic terminal? lets be hardcore on this shit.

I thought, I give VO coding a try even the car is leased. So I added 614, 615 and coded to HU_CIC. I now see some new menus available in iDrive, however BMW Live still says I have inactive browser so I shall contact dealer to activate.

Also, by adding 614 and 615, ONLINE_BROWSER remained nicht_aktive while ONLINE_BROWSER_LIVE is switched to aktiv.

Do you guys think if I enable ONLINE_BROWSER to aktiv, then 614-615 related functions start working?

In belgium, online configurator shows 6WA, 6NH as prerequisite to 614. 6AL (BMW Live) requires only 6NH, so in theory this should work...

Thanks.

You also need to code CMB_MEDIA, this is controlling what can pass through bluetooth, HU_CIC is just what you see on screen.

For BMW Live, you can also add 6AL or fdl code ONLINE_BROWSER_LIVE will give you the same result.

Looks like you are right, the difference for asian and eu/us CICs is in the system level. i was so confident that it could work was because i remember a while ago when i looked at the system architecture paper for QNX and learnt that unicode and international localisation is outofbox in the kernel level so there must be a way of enabling it, it is unfortunately we probably can't do it via changing FDLs.

@shawn, do you still have the info regarding telnet or ssh into the cic terminal? lets be hardcore on this shit.

thanks everyone.

There is a language update menu currently disable, i didn't try enabling it as i have no clue how to proceed from there...

your option is similar to pixelfreak (1-2 pages earlier) as he has 6NH but he has CMB_MEDIA, can you check in your boot if you physically have the combox located in the boot right behind the seat (you'll have to lift the floor board to unveal all the goodies lying beneath them. If you do, I cannot understand why you cannot see CMB_MEDIA (are you sure?)

your option is similar to pixelfreak (1-2 pages earlier) as he has 6NH but he has CMB_MEDIA, can you check in your boot if you physically have the combox (picture to follow). If you do, I cannot understand why you cannot see CMB_MEDIA (are you sure?)

Don't even think abt adding HK country controller to the VO, it disables album art & office. Wht the guys did was removing HK country controller & then changing one of the ecu's locale to HK. The aim is to re-enable office & album art (removing VO) & re-enabling chi support when idrive is set to eng (changing locale, necessary after removing VO), & it works on HK-spec non-nav F10 & F30 (Asian fonts support already built-in regardless of language setting before coding).
Kon already tried changing locale & it didn't work for him.

ykau just confirm enabling MACRO_PIM will bring out Office menu, but not sure if the HKG unit is coded correctly by default to take office. For Singapore car at least, even with Country Controller in place, which disable the Office menu, changing MACRO_PIM alone will activate office function in full.

And I'm pretty sure there is just 1 or 2 settings in CMB_MEDIA to enable album art although doing it by removing HKG country controller will make things easier and faster.

ykau just confirm enabling MACRO_PIM will bring out Office menu, but not sure if the HKG unit is coded correctly by default to take office. For Singapore car at least, even with Country Controller in place, which disable the Office menu, changing MACRO_PIM alone will activate office function in full.

And I'm pretty sure there is just 1 or 2 settings in CMB_MEDIA to enable album art although doing it by removing HKG country controller will make things easier and faster.

I think if we remove VO then when the good guys at Sime Darby decides to update software the coding will remain afterwards. I will probably give it a go later when I get the cable, I mean using MACRO_PIM alone.

Message menu in Office will only appear if you pair a compatible phone (with MAP support), you might want to check if your phone MAP options is activated.

Tyre pressure, do you have option 2VB? If not, it will never appear as your vehicle lack the sensor & receiver to actually show you anything. You can check 2VB in your VO list or physically check your tyre stem valve whether it's metal or rubber, if rubber means no 2VB.

I changed my VO from 6NH to 6NK and got the Bluetooth audio and album art working but whenever I go to office, I do see the messages option but it just keeps saying "Updating list" and when it's done, I get "No Messages".

I'm using the iPhone 5 on IOS 6.0 so not sure why it's still not working. Just about any combox should have this functionality right?